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Animals of the Heart

Hunting the animals of the heart 
fluid time
sounds like could be, maybe.
After all, and
once upon a time, ever after
or

Stalking the zebra of the heart
wrestling the mongoose
chasing the elusive
could be 
or
ever after, once

Too many are not good
or 
not any
after the fact
the wily long ago and 
since then

Could be nice
a swift antelope
or after 
the undulant dolphin 
sliding through its slippery maze.

Published in Exhibition, A journal of visual and literary arts, Bainbridge Island, WA, 1997

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